Joomla!
Advanced Content Management System (CMS).
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Still maintained? Yes: 237 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 6.2.0 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
Joomla! quick facts
- Health score
- 85/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 5,159
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 6.2.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Joomla is not installable out of the box from this repository, please use: - For the latest stable package: https://downloads.joomla.org - For a nightly package: https://developer.joomla.org/nightly-builds.html."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Joomla! scores 85/100, #14 of 48 in Content Management Systems (CMS): 237 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (6.2.0, 17 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 5,159 stars add 14.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
237 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
6.2.0 released 17 days ago
- Stars 14.9 / 20
5.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 237
- Last 90 days
- 570
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #14 of 48 tools in Content Management Systems (CMS) by health , between october (#13) and Umbraco (#15) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | 6.2.0 · 17 days ago |
| Stars | 5,159 |
| Open issues | 644 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | joomla/joomla-cms ↗ |
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Joomla!: common questions
Is Joomla! still maintained?
Joomla! had 237 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, 6.2.0, is from 17 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.